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Tables and charts have long been seen as effective ways to convey data. Much attention has been focused on improving charts, following ideas of human perception and brain function. Tables can also be viewed as two-dimensional representations of data; yet, it is only fairly recently that we have begun to apply principles of design that aid the communication of information between the author and reader.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnconventional oil and gas (UOG) development, made possible by horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing, has been fraught with controversy since the industry's rapid expansion in the early 2000's. Concerns about environmental contamination and public health risks persist in many rural communities that depend on groundwater resources for drinking and other daily needs. Spatial disparities in UOG risks can pose distributive environmental injustice if such risks are disproportionately borne by marginalized communities.
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- Vector control is essential for reducing diseases transmitted by vectors like the tsetse fly, which spreads African trypanosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa.
- The study utilized random forest regression to analyze habitat suitability and genetic connectivity across Kenya and northern Tanzania, achieving high accuracy in their models based on extensive field data.
- Findings indicate that vector control efforts should focus on the Lake Victoria Basin and adapt monitoring strategies to account for climate change impacts on vector presence and dispersal patterns.
A recent focus in community ecology has been on how within-species variability shapes interspecific niche partitioning. Primate color vision offers a rich system in which to explore this issue. Most neotropical primates exhibit intraspecific variation in color vision due to allelic variation at the middle-to-long-wavelength opsin gene on the X chromosome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFunctional trait approaches in ecology chiefly assume the mean trait value of a population adequately predicts the outcome of species interactions. Yet this assumption ignores substantial trait variation among individuals within a population, which can have a profound effect on community structure and function. We explored individual trait variation through the lens of animal personality to test whether among-individual variation in prey behavior mediates trophic interactions.
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